The phrase "antique language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a language that is no longer in common use or that has historical significance.
Example: "The manuscript was written in an antique language that required extensive translation efforts to understand."
Alternatives: "archaic language" or "obsolete language".
The volume covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages.
The near-symbolism of this antique-style language is shockingly disrupted when the human body in agony bursts into the text.
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
On the one hand, Mantegna's search for accurate knowledge of Roman antiquity was reflected both in his depiction of specific monuments of Roman architecture and sculpture and in his creation of a vocabulary of antique forms that became the language of antique revival for more than a generation of northern Italian painters and sculptors after the mid-1450s.
Finally, antique literature creates the symbolic language necessary to move hearts as well as balance sheets.
He spoke the language of Mahler, and antique clocks not Glocks.
Their apartment is full of art and found objects: antique apothecary jars, handwritten notes in a number of languages, an ornately carved south Asian screen.
Some examples include: gardening, antiquing, taking up an instrument, raising chickens, learning a foreign language or selling items on the Internet.
"There are two great fascinations; one is the law and the other is the language," he said, chatting with a visitor near a mirrored antique English block front desk in his chambers in the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square.
